Re: Religion in math.

From: Ioannis (morpheus_at_olympus.mons)
Date: 10/14/04 

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:43:31 +0300

Robert Israel wrote:

[snip]
>>Ramanujan, for one.
>
>
> Would you care to expand on that? As far as I'm aware,
> Ramanujan took his religion seriously (at least in terms
> of observance; Hardy disagreed with Seshu Aiyar and
> Ramachaundra Rao about whether he took the intellectual
> part seriously), but I'm not aware of his involvement
> with "religion in mathematics, or mathematics in religion".

Didn't he sometimes claim to Hardy that a certain goddess (Namagiri?)
gave him some of those identities as a gift?

To me this qualifies as "religion in mathematics".

> Robert Israel israel@math.ubc.ca
> Department of Mathematics http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel
> University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada 

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